Abstract
Israel and Jordan can best be described as “the friendliest of enemies” since the creation of the Jordanian entity in 1921. Both had a common protector—the British Mandatory regime over Palestine; both had a common enemy—radical Palestinian nationalism, initially headed by the Mufti of Jerusalem and after 1968 by the head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Yasser Arafat. In spite of fighting two major wars, in 1948 and 1967, their leaders kept in touch and sought to reach a modus vivendi that finally became a peace treaty signed in 1994 to which both parties adhere to this very day.
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Report on Talk with Abdullah, 17 November 1947, Central Zionist Archive, S25/4004
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Report by Golda Meir to Members of the Provisional State Council, Protocols 18 April–13 May 1948, Jerusalem, Israel State Archives, 1978, pp. 40–44.
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Morris, Benny, Israel’s Border Wars 1949–1956, Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1996 (Hebrew).
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Vick Vance, and Pierre Lauer, Hussein of Jordan: My War with Israel, New York, Morrow, 1969.
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For “Black September,” see Henry Kissinger, White House Years, Boston, Little Brown and Co. 1979.
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For the events of the 1973 war and its aftermath, see Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, Boston, Little Brown and Co. 1982.
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For the London Agreement, see Michael Bar-Zohar, The Phoenix – Shimon Peres, a Political Biography, Tel Aviv, Yedioth Ahronot, 2006, pp. 573–586 (Hebrew).
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The text of the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty, see Israel’s Foreign relations – Selected Documents, Jerusalem, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vol. XIV, 1995, pp. 826–854.
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Hussein’s Eulogy at Rabin’s Funeral, Israel’s Foreign Relations, Selected Documents, Jerusalem, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1997, Vol. XV, p. 348.
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For the years 1996–99, see Philip Robins, A History of Jordan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Medzini, M. (2019). A Century of Israel-Jordan Relations. In: Kumaraswamy, P.R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9166-8_25
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